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Historical Event on 11/5/1956

University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/5/1931Gandhiji leaves England for India.
12/3/1971Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries.
9/6/1993CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M).
4/17/1997Biju Patnaik, 81, Janata Dal leader and important personality in Orissa politics, died.
5/13/1967Dr. Zakhir Hussain became 3rd President of India. He was the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position till August 24, 1969.
6/11/1946Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.
7/21/1993Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
5/13/1991P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail.
1/18/1994A 12-point formula mooted to defuse the ministerial crisis.